On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 18:29:01 +0100 (BST), wrote:

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'Mike' wrote:

Why do people/posters on this newsgroup/forum think they are
SOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooo superior to others?

Because we are?

I see it time and time again.

That doesn't surprise me.

Kindest regards to those who feel that they are so superior to another
poster :-((

Kindest regards to those who give us that opportunity :-)

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"Gordon H" wrote in message
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"Gordon H" wrote in message
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Mine is tolerable. While a stranger could find that information
via the net, it would require considerable application and even
ingenuity. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to Email me with it!
But I agree that I wouldn't call it actually SECURE, as any serious
investigation would find it within the day.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Your mother's maiden name was Ford-Cosworth.
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Gordon H

I am involved with quite a few ex Service Associations, in fact I am
President of two of them, and many of the members won't give me their
Service Numbers because 'they form my PIN number/security number etc :-((

Mike

Well, you never forget, do you?
Was it your '1250' you always had to carry when you left camp?
I managed to avoid ever being on a '252', but I think a weekend pass was a
'295'...
RAF numbers, I don't know about the Army.
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Gordon H

Sorry Gordon those numbers are gobbledegook to me, I was in the Senior
Service
Kindest regards
Mike

Ah, I was afraid it would literally pass right over some people's
heads...
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Gordon H
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Martin wrote:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:20:09 +0100, Gordon H
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Ah, I was afraid it would literally pass right over some people's
heads...

Like Mike's flying pigs?

Dropping, er, unwelcome contributions as they go?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Martin wrote:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:20:09 +0100, Gordon H
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Ah, I was afraid it would literally pass right over some people's
heads...

Like Mike's flying pigs?

Dropping, er, unwelcome contributions as they go?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Depends where they drop ;-) My Father in Law's allotment was on an old Pig
Farm and the land was beautiful. Some lovely crops ;-))

Mike


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Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:

But what I detest most is when someone rings up and says that before
they can speak to me I have to answer security questions. I say "no"
and hang up.

Lloyds Bank did that to me, once. I was polite but very, very
blunt. They stopped doing that almost immediately afterwards.



My bank never emails or phones me. Once I used a cheque from an old cheque
book I thought I had lost and they stopped it which caused me huge
embarrassment. I told them they should have phoned me before they did that
and they said "oh, no, we would never do that, it might not be you that
answers the phone" ?
It took me a while to repair my relationship with the electrician who had
done some work on my house, he was charged £25 having a bouncing cheque, so
I had to pay him that back too.
I went raging down to my bank - they paid me the £25 back, but that is not
good enough really, they should never have done it. I've had an account
with them for over 30 years, there is enough money in it, they should have
checked with me.
It's more than embarrassing to have someone phone you and say your cheque
has bounced. It's not like he could undo his work is it?
I had to drive to his house with the cash.

Luckily he is prepared to do work for me again, even with a cheque :-)

"Robert E A Harvey" wrote in message
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:12:38 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

and have no
bailiffs after us (phew)

Around 15 years ago I had a baliff knock on our door, demanding a large
sum of money. He was waving a bit of paper from some court somewhere.
On careful inspection I pointed out that the name wasn't mine, and while
I lived at No. xy, the warrant was for No. 1xy.

He looked very carefully at the printed number & at the one on the door,
then recovered his nasty manner. "Nah. Same fing!"

I suggested he come back with a policeman, as the document proposed, and
shut the door on him. He shouted through the letterbox "You've not seen
the last of me, chum!"


That is quite unusual for a bailiff. Most of them are very professional at
their job and if they go to the wrong house they will apologise. Nor do
they assume a threatening manner, but they do need to be forceful, after all
if property needs to be taken for a debt the owners will not like it and may
resist.

Jake Nospam@invalid wrote in
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But what I detest most is when someone rings up and says that before
they can speak to me I have to answer security questions. I say "no"
and hang up.

When sombody does that I ask them to authenticate their
identity to me first. Followed by a short discussion about
why that's necessary...

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Jake Nospam@invalid wrote in
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But what I detest most is when someone rings up and says that before
they can speak to me I have to answer security questions. I say "no"
and hang up.

When sombody does that I ask them to authenticate their
identity to me first. Followed by a short discussion about
why that's necessary...

Ask them where they are calling from, home or abroad. Talk to them about the
weather and what it is like where you are. Then inform them that you must
dash but 'Thanks for the call, been nice talking to you' and put the phone
down.

Another is if possible, keep the conversation going on your subjects.

Another, ask them who they wish to speak to, 'Who wants him/her/them?' they
may say, then 'Hang on I will go and find him/her' and put the phone down so
they can hear the radio/TV distant conversation. every so often pick the
phone up, 'Are you there still? Hang on trying to find him/her' and put the
phone down again before they have time to say anything. ....... They soon
hang up.

Mike


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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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Martin wrote in
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A colleague had around £50K accidentally put in his account by the
Dutch tax people. He told them what they had done. It took them around
6 months before they retrieved the money. We wanted him to put the
money in a high interest savings account, but he didn't dare.

A story about Pat Coombs, who deposited a junk advert cheque
for $95000, and due to a bank error the money became his and
he was able to withdraw it..

http://www.goodthink.com/writing/vie...d=11&page_id=2